Get Familiar: REMEMBER FRANTZ FANON ON THE 55TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

[loyola llothta]

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

 

[Pitfalls0117]

Wrote my thesis on wretched, in part

The GOAT theorist of anti colonial resistance

 

[loyola llothta]

Check out "Concerning Violence" , its streaming on Netflix Now

Frantz Omar Fanon, the Martiniquais-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism, died on this day in history, December 6, 1961. He was only 35 years old. Leukemia was the cause of death. In remembrance, a film recommendation: “Concerning Violence,” which is streaming on Netflix. After attempting to contextualize the Black Power Movement, in a format more accessible to a new generation – what we call a “mixtape” hence the title, “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” – Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson continued on that same path with “Concerning Violence” – a project that incorporates the words from Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth,” using newly-discovered archive footage (as was the case with “Mixtape”), to explore the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the so-called Third World, illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the unrest and the reaction against it.

For those unfamiliar with Fanon’s writings, in short, the author’s two critically significant works – “Black Skin, White Masks” (1952) and the aforementioned “Wretched of the Earth” (1961) – both read like manifestos presenting a utopian vision of a better world where the colonized frees himself/herself and becomes independent of the colonizer, both physically and mentally. Fanon’s theories were influential during those years, especially on Third Cinema, right from its launch in the 1960s – a time of anti-colonial revolutionary struggles in the Third World, and rising political movements against the dominance of Western countries. Third Cinema, by the way, was a film movement that was formed to address the need for a new kind of cinema that critiqued neocolonialism, Western imperialism and capitalism; an anti-oppression stance that challenged the status quo of political and social power around the world that left the so-called Third World at a disadvantage.

“Concerning Violence premiered the the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, which was followed by a very limited theatrical release in the USA. It’s available on various home video platforms currently. For Netflix subscribers, it’s streaming on that platform.

 

[JahFocus CS]

One of the GOAT books

 

[Critical Distance]

 

[Dorian Breh]

Been up on this shyt since I was a young breh

Lotta these coli denizens don't know that half they opinions they think are fresh and controversial were written by the breh Fanon sixty yrs ago.

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Wrote my thesis on wretched, in part

The GOAT theorist of anti colonial resistance

He was so anti colonial he even got himself a white wife .....

 

[J-Nice]

Reading this stack right now

 

[JahFocus CS]

He was so anti colonial he even got himself a white wife .....

I was so shocked when I learned this a few years ago.

Was extremely disappointed in breh. He held a number of anti-Black woman positions, including the Coli-style double standard of being an apologist for BM c00nery when it comes to marrying cac women but berating BW for marrying cac men.

 

[Pitfalls0117]

I was so shocked when I learned this a few years ago.

Was extremely disappointed in breh. He held a number of anti-Black woman positions, including the Coli-style double standard of being an apologist for BM c00nery when it comes to marrying cac women but berating BW for marrying cac men.

His positions on interracial relations were weird and backwards at certain points, most prominently in BSWM, which unsurprisingly is white academia's favorite text of his.

Still, he had a French wife that held him down, even as his politics became more and more radical and as he became actively involved in the FLN. She actually transcribed all of wretched as he dictated it to her from his deathbed. And, their children have remained extremely politically active to this day